The first table below looks at the demand for the SQL DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SQL Database Administrator
Rank 65 70 58
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -12
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 5 14 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.514% 1.150% 0.975%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.551% 1.262% 1.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 6
Average daily rate £294 £275 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.81% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £229 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £359 £311 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £22.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -24.16%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
908 1109 963
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.42% 91.13% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 535 450
Average daily rate £333 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 75 88
Average hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.94% +21.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £11.20 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SQL DBA
North West

SQL DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL DBA across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Manchester SQL DBA Jobs Demand Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL DBA across the Manchester region.

Manchester SQL DBA Daily Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL DBA across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester SQL DBA Daily Rate Histogram

SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL DBA across the Manchester region.

Manchester SQL DBA Hourly Rate Trend

SQL DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Ashton-under-Lyne - - - -
Oldham - - - -
Sale - - - -
SQL DBA
North West

SQL DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited SQL DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with SQL DBA in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (50.00%) Replication
4 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
6 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (10.00%) Statistics
7 1 (10.00%) Wireless
7 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (10.00%) CICS
7 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
7 1 (10.00%) Internet
7 1 (10.00%) MSDE
7 1 (10.00%) Project Management
7 1 (10.00%) Teradata
7 1 (10.00%) Tandem
7 1 (10.00%) Retail
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 1 (10.00%) SOA

SQL DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited SQL DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with SQL DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (10.00%) MSDE
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (10.00%) DB2
5 1 (10.00%) Informix
General
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Statistics
2 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCDBA
1 1 (10.00%) MCT
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Teradata
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase
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